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The follow-up to Slow Down: 50 Mindful Moments in Nature invites you to enjoy the present moment with everyday nature that makes you stop, watch, and be amazed by the tiniest things The Slow Down series encourages kids (and their grown-ups!) to take the time to stop and experience mindful moments in nature. Zoom in to observe a hummingbird drinking nectar or a pea shoot appear. Delight in a little snail as he comes come out to drink. Charming text...
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Hungry garden volume 3
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Book 3 of the Hungry Garden series talks about the other hungry species dwelling in your garden - insects! Whether they're eating your plants - or eating the insects that are eating your plants - insects are fascinating to learn about, even the garden-wreckers.Learn to observe what lives on your roses, what's laying eggs on the underside of your tomato leaves, and what insects are lying in ambush for pests. This book will help you tell the helpful...
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Inspired by a true story, The Bones You Have Cast Down will transport you to a medieval village and a lush Renaissance court, to long ago times not unlike our own, when the keepers of faith conspired against the faithful, and the rich and powerful embraced war and corruption even while fostering works of artistic brilliance revered to this day. In 1447, Taria is swept from a convent orphanage into the glittering retinue of the duchess of Milan....
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IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
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Carol Danvers kicks off her U.S. Air Force career with her first year at flight school, where she'll be tested in ways she never thought possible-and make a lifelong friend, Maria Rambeau, in the process-in this atmospheric and exciting prelude to the upcoming Marvel Studios' film, Captain Marvel! Focusing on Carol Danvers and Maria Rambeau as they wend their way through a space that was still very much a "boys' club" in the 80s, the important social-cultural...
47) Emilie
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How much suffering can one person endure? Will it break them or make them stronger? Sixteen-year-old Emilie Lefroy is, about to find out as she searches for her identity and sense of self amid the bloody 16th century French Wars of Religion that kills her closest family and friends. Emilie laments being born a female of noble birth. Headstrong and intelligent, she challenges societal and family inequalities. 'Why should I pray to a god that has given...
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In this groundbreaking book, Sue Brightman beckons us into timely and promising news about women over 50: it's not about aging, it's about becoming more of who we really are and doing what we're called to do. Based on 100 interviews with women age 50-70+, Brightman discovers emerging themes of burgeoning creativity, spiritual growth, and a zesty freedom to experiment with new roles, new businesses, and new priorities. Blasting out of the water the...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
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The sky god Nyame owns all the stories in the world. He keeps them to himself in a box in his kingdom in the clouds. But Anansi thinks the stories should be shared by all creatures. So one day he strikes a bargain with the sky god. If Anansi can trick some of the earth's fiercest and quickest creatures, Nyame will share his stories. Learn how Anansi wins the box of stories in this ancient tale from West Africa.
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This book contains 82 vignettes relating to the author's experiences as a rookie, then as a member for 12 years of an Inner-City Unit dealing primarily with gangs and drugs, then with a Unit dealing with "Incorrigible" juveniles and "Dysfunctional," often violent, families and finally as the designer and coordinator of the State's first Academy for Juvenile Detention Officers.
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Book ten in the Shandra Higheagle Mystery Series. Secrets... Scandal... Murder... An autistic boy and his brother need potter Shandra Higheagle's help when a teacher's body is found after a confrontation with the older brother. Shandra knows the boy is innocent. Digging into the teacher's life, she and Ryan turn up scandal. Detective Ryan Greer has believed in Shandra's dreams in the past, but she can't always be right. When his investigation uncovers...
52) I, annie moore
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Annie Moore is an icon for every immigrant that has ever entered America through Ellis Island. At seventeen years of age, Annie Moore started out on the greatest adventure of her life. Born and raised in Cork, Ireland, she crossed an ocean, and on New Year's Day, 1892, became the first of 12 million immigrants to pass through Ellis Island. "I don't ever remember being warm on the ship," Annie says of her trip to America. In this book you'll meet the...
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Chloe Parker dutifully fills her role as the daughter of an absentee father who demands her loyalty to his ranch nestled high in the Rockies. Even with an immense love for the mountains, Chloe knows she doesn't belong. When an opportunity comes for her to meet family in the deep South for the first time, she decides she has to go. Drawn into a forty-year cold case of a dead grandfather she never met, Chloe comes to the aid of her frail grandmother...
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"Commercial deep-sea diver Solvig has a secret. She wants to be one of the first human beings to colonize Mars, and she's one of a hundred people shortlisted by the Mars Project to do just that. But to fulfil her ambition, she'll have to leave behind everything she's ever known-for the rest of her life. As the prospect of heading to space becomes more real, thirty-seven-year-old Solvig is forced to define who she really is. Will she come clean to...
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Struggling to structure your book series? Learn how to make a series work for you: increase reader engagement and take advantage of the built-in marketing potential a series gives you.Are you unsure which series structure is best for you? Or are you several books into a series, but you're stuck? Do you want to expand your literary universe but aren't sure how to do it? Perhaps you have a series languishing in your backlist, and you need ideas on how...
56) UR
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FIRST TIME ON AUDIO... An Unabridged Novella Unavailable In Any Collection! Tapping into our primal fears of modern technology that made Cell a #1 bestseller, Stephen King sets his sights on the latest high-tech gadget in UR, in which a mysterious e-book reader opens a disturbing window into other worlds. Reeling from a painful break-up, English instructor and avid book lover Wesley Smith is haunted by his ex-girlfriend's parting shot: "Why can't...
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2000, c1999
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IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 14
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The official novel based on the movie, this book features an expanded story line. The Jedi Knight Qui-Gon Jinn and his apprentice, Obi-Wan Kenobi, are charged with protecting Amidala, the young Queen of Naboo, as she seeks to end the siege of her planet by Trade Federation warships. The quest introduces them to a slave boy who has extraordinary instincts.